Every category where a model named Nutanix AHV for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Server virtualization platforms	Cloud and infrastructure	17%	3 of 78	8%	48	accepted challenger
Data center networking	Network and edge	0%	77 of 165	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Arista Networks at 27%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Nutanix AHV yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Nutanix AHV across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	0	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	1	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	6	0	0	6
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	0	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	2	1	0	4
Mistral Small	0	1	1	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	1	2	5
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	2	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	2	0	1	4
Kimi K2	2	2	0	0	4
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	3	0	0	4
MiniMax M2.5	1	4	1	1	7
GPT-6 Luna	1	0	1	0	2
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	4	1	0	5

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct20 labels4

Paraphrase34 labels19

Comparative21 labelsNone

Budget-constrained11 labels4

Scale-constrained30 labels4

Negative29 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative145 labels in all, every segment counted; 31 of the 32 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“If you want the safest default recommendation for a mid-sized B2B company replacing VMware, I'd usually pick Nutanix Cloud Platform with AHV.” GPT-5.4 mini · Server virtualization · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“my default recommendation would be Nutanix AHV if you want the closest commercial replacement to VMware” Perplexity Sonar · Server virtualization · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“If you want the closest "VMware-like" experience with enterprise support: Go with Nutanix AHV” MiniMax M2.5 · Server virtualization · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Start with Nutanix AHV evaluation ... makes it the lowest-risk path for most organizations.” Kimi K2 · Server virtualization · paraphrase prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Per-node software licensing is expensive for small deployments.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Server virtualization · budget prompt · hard negative

“You generally cannot buy just the hypervisor license cheaply anymore.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Server virtualization · negative prompt · soft negative

“Good for HCI, but cost + vendor lock-in needs evaluation.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Server virtualization · negative prompt · soft negative

“Cons: Can be complex, premium pricing” MiniMax M2.5 · Server virtualization · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Nutanix AHV, over the 144 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Nutanix AHV was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Proxmox VE120 of 14428Compare →

VMware vSphere88 of 14429Compare →

Microsoft Hyper-V87 of 14419Compare →

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization38 of 1440Not among the top eight

XCP-ng35 of 1441Not among the top eight

Citrix Hypervisor32 of 1440Not among the top eight

Scale Computing22 of 1443Compare →

KVM22 of 1440Not among the top eight

Oracle VM VirtualBox20 of 1440Not among the top eight

Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Local17 of 1441Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Nutanix AHV. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 127 of the 144 answers that named Nutanix AHV and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

ciopages.com44

nutanix.comYour site44

linkedin.com37

guideflow.com35

us.fitgap.com35

databank.com30

techdogs.com30

cloudchipr.com29

gitnux.org29

sangfor.com27

296 of the 340 domain citations in answers naming Nutanix AHV came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

ciopages.com/buyer-guides/virtualization-platform44

guideflow.com/blog/server-virtualization-software35

cloudchipr.com/blog/vmware-alternatives29

v2cloud.com/blog/top-5-virtualization-platforms22

tms-outsource.com/blog/posts/10-enterprise-server-virtualization-platforms19

devopsschool.com/blog/top-10-virtualization-platforms-features-pros-cons-comparison17

techdogs.com/td-articles/product-mine/best-server-virtualization-software17

dnsstuff.com/server-virtualization-software16

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

nutanix.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Nutanix AHV takes 17% of first choices and Proxmox VE takes 42%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “server virtualization platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “server virtualization platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 1,000 a month (“nutanix ahv”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 37 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 61,735 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 14,438 · 913 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 13,442
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

96 ads · 87 text, 9 video · 40 shown in the last 30 days

First shown August 2025, as NUTANIX, INC., verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 47 in the year, 49 before. 1 more by other advertisers linking to it.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

17%

rank 3 of 78 in server virtualization

Segment leader

42%

Proxmox VE

First choices: 31 across its categories
Named in: 144 answers
Its own site cited: in 127 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on nutanix.com

10,092

subdomains included

Content

1,531

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

275 · 545

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
News or press	575	5	2026-09-10	Object storage
Case study	473	10	2026-09-22	ASM
Blog	341	15	2026-09-22	Firewalls
Conference or event	51	0	2024-09-18
Webinar or virtual event	44	0	2026-06-12
Comparison	23	0	2024-12-30
Report or ebook	14	0	2024-08-01
Glossary or explainer	5	0	2026-05-22
Podcast or video	5	0	2021-06-25

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Events in person

Upcoming

March 30, 2027 to April 1, 2027.NEXT 2027Las Vegas · takes part

As the event pages on nutanix.com state them, read September 28, 2026.

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page nutanix.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.

Names read as Nutanix AHV

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Nutanix AHV; a claim can dispute any of them.

Nutanix 7Nutanix AHV (Acropolis Hypervisor) 3Nutanix (Standalone AHV) 1Nutanix Cloud Platform 1Nutanix Cloud Platform with AHV 1

Follow Nutanix AHV

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Nutanix AHV is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: AHV Virtualization
nutanix.com/israel/customers
Customers named: ישראל UPSברינקס ישראלהמכללה האקדמית אשקלוןאופרטיבאמדוקסאוניברסיטת בר אילן
Not stated on the pages read: Who it is for, price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting

What Nutanix AHV's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: nutanix.com, trust.nutanix.com, nutanix.com/platform, nutanix.com/israel/customers, nutanix.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

Is this your product?

Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Nutanix AHV's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Nutanix AHV, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Nutanix AHV by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Nutanix AHV is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Nutanix AHV, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Nutanix AHV is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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Nutanix AHV is among the products AI models recommend first in Server virtualization platforms this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Server virtualization platforms standing, where the claim can be checked.

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Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Server virtualization platforms standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.